Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 82 83
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 -29
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,095 1,738 2,282
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.86% 3.51% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 3.96% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,443 824 1,373
10th Percentile £45,848 £51,075 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,652 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +14.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £108,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -6.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,210 43,908 63,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.55% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57,176 24,796 36,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -22 1,812 £75,000 - 1,587
UK excluding London -21 1,148 £67,500 -3.57% 721
Work from Home -20 861 £67,500 -3.57% 744
London -18 798 £85,000 +6.25% 1,080
North of England -43 372 £75,000 +7.14% 205
South East +38 323 £65,000 -9.09% 143
North West -54 200 £77,250 +10.36% 108
South West -12 136 £61,250 +2.08% 87
Midlands -50 110 £67,500 -3.57% 81
North East +17 95 £65,000 +49.86% 33
West Midlands -32 79 £80,000 +14.29% 51
Yorkshire -10 77 £69,310 -0.99% 67
Northern Ireland -20 70 £60,000 +33.33% 47
Wales -20 66 £62,500 +20.19% 10
East of England -49 39 £60,100 -3.84% 50
Scotland -45 36 £60,000 -23.23% 102
East Midlands -58 31 £65,000 - 29
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (2.05%) Confluence
2 31 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 18 (0.86%) Apache
4 16 (0.76%) CMS
5 13 (0.62%) IIS
6 12 (0.57%) Camunda
7 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.33%) JBoss
10 7 (0.33%) nginx
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.33%) WordPress
11 5 (0.24%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.14%) DNN
13 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.095%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Eikon
4 1 (0.048%) RMDS
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Shopify
4 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,067 (50.93%) AWS
2 885 (42.24%) Azure
3 331 (15.80%) GCP
4 261 (12.46%) Serverless
5 260 (12.41%) GitHub
6 191 (9.12%) SaaS
7 183 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
8 147 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
9 122 (5.82%) Amazon S3
9 122 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 116 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
12 93 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
13 87 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
15 69 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
16 66 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
17 60 (2.86%) Azure AKS
18 51 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 49 (2.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.72%) Broadband
2 21 (1.00%) Network Security
3 13 (0.62%) DMARC
4 12 (0.57%) DNS
4 12 (0.57%) MQTT
5 9 (0.43%) HTTP
6 8 (0.38%) AMQP
6 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 8 (0.38%) VPN
7 7 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.29%) RFID
8 6 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.24%) Firewall
10 3 (0.14%) DHCP
10 3 (0.14%) LTE
10 3 (0.14%) NAS
10 3 (0.14%) SAN
11 2 (0.095%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.095%) SSL
12 1 (0.048%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (14.94%) MongoDB
2 231 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
3 206 (9.83%) NoSQL
4 168 (8.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 157 (7.49%) Elasticsearch
6 115 (5.49%) SQL Server
7 114 (5.44%) MySQL
8 93 (4.44%) Relational Database
9 65 (3.10%) Redis
10 58 (2.77%) DynamoDB
11 45 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.48%) Big Data
13 15 (0.72%) Data Lake
13 15 (0.72%) Pinecone
14 14 (0.67%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.57%) Db2
15 12 (0.57%) DTS
16 11 (0.53%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 284 (13.56%) Git
2 193 (9.21%) GitLab
3 166 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 66 (3.15%) JUnit
5 64 (3.05%) JIRA
6 59 (2.82%) TeamCity
7 55 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 43 (2.05%) Cypress.io
9 39 (1.86%) Mockito
10 36 (1.72%) Maven
11 33 (1.58%) Claude Code
12 26 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 26 (1.24%) Selenium
13 19 (0.91%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.81%) Spock
15 15 (0.72%) Postman
16 14 (0.67%) JMeter
16 14 (0.67%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.57%) CircleCI
17 12 (0.57%) Vite
General
1 536 (25.58%) Finance
2 417 (19.90%) Social Skills
3 230 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 190 (9.07%) Banking
5 158 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 152 (7.26%) Law
7 143 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
8 117 (5.58%) Retail
9 87 (4.15%) Legal
10 75 (3.58%) Financial Institution
11 61 (2.91%) Marketing
12 53 (2.53%) Back Office
13 38 (1.81%) Aerospace
14 34 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.48%) Games
16 28 (1.34%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.86%) Advertising
18 17 (0.81%) Front Office
19 12 (0.57%) Aviation
20 11 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 777 (37.09%) Developer
2 506 (24.15%) Senior
3 373 (17.80%) Software Engineer
4 357 (17.04%) Lead
5 314 (14.99%) Architect
6 202 (9.64%) .NET Developer
7 190 (9.07%) Senior Developer
8 165 (7.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 164 (7.83%) Java Developer
10 136 (6.49%) Java Engineer
11 127 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 126 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
13 110 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
14 104 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
15 84 (4.01%) Software Developer
16 78 (3.72%) Lead Software Engineer
17 73 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
18 71 (3.39%) Lead Developer
19 66 (3.15%) Technical Leader
20 59 (2.82%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 547 (26.11%) .NET
2 451 (21.53%) React
3 435 (20.76%) Node.js
4 382 (18.23%) Terraform
5 375 (17.90%) Spring
6 339 (16.18%) Spring Boot
7 319 (15.23%) RESTful
8 288 (13.75%) REST
9 285 (13.60%) Kafka
10 245 (11.69%) ASP.NET
11 225 (10.74%) AngularJS
12 223 (10.64%) .NET Core
13 212 (10.12%) Vue
14 197 (9.40%) ASP.NET Core
15 122 (5.82%) Blazor
16 103 (4.92%) ASP.NET Web API
17 93 (4.44%) HTML
18 91 (4.34%) CSS
19 89 (4.25%) .NET Framework
20 88 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 659 (31.46%) Cloud Native
2 382 (18.23%) Distributed Systems
3 159 (7.59%) Product Ownership
4 113 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (3.77%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 51 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
9 50 (2.39%) AI Agents
10 47 (2.24%) Virtual Team
11 43 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
12 41 (1.96%) e-Learning
13 29 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
14 24 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
15 23 (1.10%) Mobile App
16 22 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
17 20 (0.95%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.95%) Mainframe
17 20 (0.95%) Private Cloud
18 19 (0.91%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 142 (6.78%) Linux
2 48 (2.29%) Windows
3 26 (1.24%) CentOS
3 26 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (1.05%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.29%) AIX
8 5 (0.24%) Debian
8 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
10 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,116 (53.27%) CI/CD
2 1,001 (47.78%) Agile
3 752 (35.89%) Software Engineering
4 736 (35.13%) DevOps
5 579 (27.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 539 (25.73%) Mentoring
7 478 (22.82%) Event-Driven
8 447 (21.34%) AI
9 434 (20.72%) Test Automation
10 424 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 420 (20.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 407 (19.43%) Containerisation
13 376 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
14 310 (14.80%) Technical Leadership
15 299 (14.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 292 (13.94%) Scrum
17 250 (11.93%) Architectural Patterns
18 243 (11.60%) TDD
19 239 (11.41%) Observability
20 235 (11.22%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 731 (34.89%) Java
2 579 (27.64%) C#
3 509 (24.30%) SQL
4 463 (22.10%) JavaScript
5 451 (21.53%) Python
6 400 (19.09%) TypeScript
7 98 (4.68%) Go
8 59 (2.82%) Ruby
9 46 (2.20%) C++
10 40 (1.91%) Bash
11 33 (1.58%) PHP
12 29 (1.38%) Scala
13 27 (1.29%) PowerShell
14 26 (1.24%) Bicep
15 24 (1.15%) Kotlin
16 23 (1.10%) Rust
17 21 (1.00%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.81%) C
19 16 (0.76%) Groovy
20 13 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 314 (14.99%) Security Cleared
2 213 (10.17%) SC Cleared
3 175 (8.35%) Degree
4 91 (4.34%) DV Cleared
5 81 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 80 (3.82%) AWS Certification
7 55 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.43%) CISSP
9 29 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.91%) CISM
11 18 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.48%) MBA
15 9 (0.43%) PhD
16 6 (0.29%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
18 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
18 4 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (10.69%) QA
2 91 (4.34%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.77%) WCAG
4 34 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.58%) GDPR
6 18 (0.86%) NCSC
7 17 (0.81%) NIST
8 15 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.62%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.53%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.43%) GRC
12 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
16 5 (0.24%) PSD2
17 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 590 (28.16%) Docker
2 36 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) NDS
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 2 (0.095%) Firmware
8 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 633 (30.21%) Kubernetes
2 105 (5.01%) Ansible
3 102 (4.87%) Grafana
4 53 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.29%) Argo
5 27 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.91%) Puppet
7 15 (0.72%) Kibana
8 9 (0.43%) Cilium
9 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.24%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) Packer
12 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.095%) MIIS
13 2 (0.095%) Rancher
14 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.048%) Consul
14 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.048%) logstash
Vendors
1 332 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 99 (4.73%) Google
3 73 (3.48%) Oracle
4 45 (2.15%) Splunk
5 42 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 27 (1.29%) Dynatrace
7 26 (1.24%) IBM
8 25 (1.19%) AppDynamics
9 24 (1.15%) Okta
10 22 (1.05%) Databricks
11 21 (1.00%) ForgeRock
12 18 (0.86%) Typelevel
13 17 (0.81%) OneLogin
14 15 (0.72%) SAP
15 14 (0.67%) Adobe
16 13 (0.62%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.62%) SendGrid
17 12 (0.57%) Mistral
17 12 (0.57%) ServiceNow
18 9 (0.43%) Red Hat